Chaos Dwarf References

From Chaos Dwarfs

This is a list of nearly all Chaos Dwarf rules and articles printed in Games Workshop literature. It also includes smaller references
to Chaos Dwarfs and Hobgoblins, usually in descriptions or fluff. Some references are not strictly Chaos Dwarf related but are close enough to be of interest, particularly Norse Dwarfs, Hobgoblins, etc.

Repetitions of material is noted where it is known. It was common for book articles to be published in White Dwarf around the time of release, and for White Dwarf articles to be collected into White Dwarf Presents compendiums. All articles/books are listed in the chronological order of release. Some books/articles were valid for more than one edition, usually the end of one edition and the beginning of another. Where this occurs the article is listed in the edition it was first released under - there are always some overlaps between editions.

Entries include a full reference which may be copied and pasted when updating pages on the wiki.

These are the "official" books that provide the setting and background information for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game in its various editions and incarnations; see Editions of Warhammer and Early Chaos Dwarfs for more details.

The Chaos Dwarf army book; the book is principally a compilation of White Dwarf articles with a small amount of additional material. The White Dwarf articles included are from WD161, WD162, WD163, WD164, WD165, and WD170. The additional material covered Chaos Dwarf banners and special characters: Gorduz Backstabber, Zhatan The Black, and Astragoth.

29: The vampire Mangari the Old uncovers a magical crown in the Mountains of Mourn that allows him to commune with Tzeentch, and for the next century hordes of Daemons and the Undead assail the Chaos Dwarfs and Ogres.

112: Talabheim has once been attacked by the Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer Korakagrakk and his Magma Beasts.

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Orcs & Goblins

Army book for Orcs & Goblins for 8th edition.

10: Description of Black Orcs, mention of their origin in the Dark Lands.

13: Map of Greenskin tribes in the Old World, including the western edges of the Dark Lands with sites such as Howling Rock, the Wolf Lands, Crookback Mountain, the Ash Ridge Mountains, the Plain of Bone, Mount Grey Hag, and with a pointer toward the Plain of Zharr.

14: Description of the Dark Lands, with mention of the Chaos Dwarfs, Hobgoblins (including the Great Hobgobbla Khan!), and the origins of the Black Orcs.

39: Description of Black Orcs, including rumors of their origin by the Chaos Dwarfs.

40: Assertion that Orc slaves that escaped from the Chaos Dwarfs brought knowledge of metal working to the Greenskin tribes.

71: Stats and description of Grimgor Ironhide and Da Immortulz. His axe Gitsnik was forged in Zharr-Nagrond.

Issues are addresses chronologically and use the UK numbering unless stated otherwise (US numbering is UK - 1, for reference). References should include the author of the articles, the name of the article, the issue number (typically abbreviated as "WDXXX" format), and the page number. 'Eavy Metal articles are pictures of the studio's painted miniatures.

90: A Chaos Dwarf army destroyed Ruglud's horde by massed crossbow firepower. Later on he came apon a battlesite containing the same Chaos Dwarfs, all dead, killed by something or someone unknown. His remaining force took the armour from the Chaos Dwarfs, and became Ruglud's Armoured Orcs.

Ruglud's Armoured Orcs 90. WD267

White Dwarf 302

14-18: The Ivory Road. An Empire map maker charts his quest in the company of Ogres. Mentionned are the Black Fortress, the Howling Wastes, and 'flesh-eating Dwarf slavers who wear masks of iron and take their blacksmith's tools to their captives in brutal and length displays of torture'.

The Ivory Road 14-18. WD302

White Dwarf 342

68-75: Chosen of Chaos. A Warriors of Chaos army list to get players by until their army book is released. The Hellcannon, crewed by Chaos Dwarfs, is included.

The Citadel Journal issues are addresses chronologically. References should include the author of the articles, the name of the article, the issue number (typically abbreviated as "CJXX" format), and the page number.

4-11: Dwarflords. The Dwarflords are captured by Hobgoblins and Chaos Dwarfs in the Mountains of Mourn, and taken as slaves to Zharr-Naggrund, where they became embroiled in a pit fight and managed to escape on a bull centaur.

The Warhammer Fantasy universe has been shared, at least to some degree, with other games published by Games Workshop and licensed companies. While not always "canon," these are a good source of fluff.

A Fanatics Games publication to provide further material for Blood Bowl enthusiasts. References should include the author of the articles, the name of the article, the issue number (typically abbreviated as "BBXX" format), and the page number.

Blood Bowl Magazine Issue 6

31: Rumour Control: Hthark the Unstoppable allegedly signed a one year deal to endorse Orcidas athletic hoofwear.

25: "The Dwarfs reserve a particular loathing for the corrupted Chaos Dwarfs, whom they call the Tainted (Khazalid: Frurndar). Their existence is seen as a disgrace to the entire Dwarf race, and one which can only be expunged by the total extinction of the Chaos Dwarfs. The savagery of the battles between the two races nearly reaches that of the Dwarf-Orc conflicts. The few Chaos Dwarfs who survive long enough to be captured can only look forward to a lengthy interrogation before they are also killed."

60: "Some say that [Grimmaz] has been seen in the possession of a marauding band of Tainted Dwarfs found near the High (Beleyevorota) Pass, northwest of Kislev."

61: "Over a century ago, Kislevite trappers in the nearby World's Edge Mountains encountered a band of Tainted Dwarfs whose leader was carrying an ornate warhammer. One survivor of the onslaught, Ivan Keanovich, reported that this magical hammer was able to shoot lightning bolts at will. Through some research in the Great Library in Marienburg, the Imperial explorer Tomas Ostermann determined that the little information provided by Keanovich was enough to convince him that the magical hammer was indeed Gnoldron. Ostermann mounted an expedition in 2430 I.C. to recover the hammer, but never returned."

The short story of interest was originally printed as Geheimnisnacht in the Warhammer Fantasy anthology Ignorant Armies. The Gotrek and Felix short stories were collected and published in Trollslayer in 1999, which was reprinted in 2003, and included in Gotrek & Felix: The First Omnibus in 2006.

"Are there not dwarfs that worship the Chaos gods?" asked Felix. "From what I have seen of them, they would not scruple to use any weapon."
"Aye," said Hamnir, "but their realm is far from here, beyond the Worlds Edge Mountains, and north. It would be extremely strange to find them so far south."
"They have been known to enslave grobi," added Gorril, "but this is done with the whip and the club. Left alone, the greenskins rebel and do what they will. If the grobi we encountered had been slaves, there would have been Dawi Zharr overseers with them, driving them into battle."

213: Reference to Zharr Naggrund and the Zharri-dum, an alternative name for the Chaos Dwarfs.

239-240, 245-246: The Chaos Dwarfs sent forces with the army of Vardek Crom, herald of Archaon, to break through Peak Pass. The Chaos Dwarfs and Marauders were opposed by the forces of Karak Kadrin and Zhufbar; and when their mortal Chaos allies were defeated the Chaos Dwarfs drew back. Descriptions of Chaos Dwarf army units including sorcerers and daemonic war machines, including the Hellcannon and the Kollossus.

146-339: One of the supporting characters in the novel is Zhardrach, a renegade Chaos Dwarf ("Fire Dwarf of the Great Skull Land") who escaped from Uzkulak, where he claimed they wished to feed him to daemons, to a Norscan encampment on the edge of the Chaos Wastes, where he was a forgemaster at a Norscan star-metal mine, enslaving the chaos ogre Thogmathog with the use of a magical bronze ring set with angular runes. The Chaos Dwarf had tiny skull-shaped black beads woven into his beard, each one marked with one of the runes on the slave ring (presumably this is how Zhardrach controlled the ogre), as well as gold rings piercing his brow and gold studs set in his nose. Zhardrach worshiped Hashut (called 'Dark Father' by the Norscans) and forged a sword for Einarr, the novel's protagonist, from a shattered steel sword and an ithilmar dagger; there is no indication he was learnt in sorcery. Zhardrach accompanied Einarr and his warband into the Chaos Wastes. He spent the majority of the novel chained to a two-headed Chaos Ogre and planning to betray and kill the warband, but was finally slain by the Chaos Dragon Bubos.

400: Referring to the weapon of the Black Orc warlord Urgluk Bloodfang at the Battle of Black Fire Pass:

"Green fire rippled around the warlord's axe, a weapon of immense poer and evil. The blade was smooth obsidian and no orc craft had fashioned so deadly a weapon. Twisted variants of the runes that blazed on Ghal-maraz were worked along the length of its haft, and Sigmar felt their evil clawing at his soul."

9, 92-95, 157-160, 162, 165, 216-217, 257-260, 272, 274-283, 358-361: One of the supporting characters in this novel is Zumarah, a Chaos Dwarf slavemaster and forgemaster, who has lent his services and those of his HellcannonErishkagal-Namtar and its supporting retinue of Chaos Dwarfs and Black Orcs to the Skaeling Jarl in exchange for the promise of many slaves. The hellcannon proves a decisive weapon against the Brettonians until it is destroyed during the siege of Lyonnesse, the twin-daemons within it freed and its crew slaughtered. Zumarah himself challenges the Jarl for breaking his oath to pay the Chaos Dwarf his promised quota of slaves, and dies at the Skaeling's axe. Zumarah had a dark, ruddy complexion like granite, prominent tusks, and knobs under his forehead that were either mutations or implants of some sort; his beard was long and black, and bound with rings of meteoric iron. HIs personal weapon was a magical greataxe with a head of enchanted obsidian.

Death & Dishonour
The short story Red Sand by Nathan Long features Gotrek & Felix in the Dark Lands, guarding a caravan from Pig Barter. Reveals some interesting details of the Dark Lands, but mentions nothing of the Chaos Dwarfs.